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· 8/20/2014

City of Greenville, Illinois v. Syngenta Crop Protection, LLC

Citations

  • 764 F.3d 695
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 16152
  • 2014 WL 4092255

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • acknowledging that the Seventh Circuit has “limited the presumption of public access to materials that affect judicial decisions”
  • explaining that “litigants who enjoy publicly subsidized dispute resolution should expect public oversight”
  • presumption that court documents are public can be rebutted if the records contain trade secrets or “if a statute, rule, or privilege justifies confidentiality”
  • presumption that court documents are public can be rebutted if the records contain trade secrets or “if a statute, rule, or privilege justifies confidentiality”
  • the public has no right to access documents that “cannot conceivably aid the understanding of judicial decision making”
  • the public has no right to access documents that “cannot conceivably aid the understanding of judicial decisionmaking”

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Judges: Wood, Easterbrook, Hamilton

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